I always wondered what it would feel like to run away to a different galaxy. Would the stars look the same? Do people fly around to travel? Are people called people? And obviously if I was running away it would be pertinent to do it with the love of my life. Whoever that is when I do decide to run away, the way it’s going right now it’ll probably be my cat.

The music video to Toys For a Coma’s latest song ‘Stalkhome’ feels like that: a fantastical escape. We meet Spacegirl who is running away from her home planet and finds shelter on Earth. While she’s trying to lay low, she meets a boy (obviously) and even before their romance can blossom, her father sends his most loyal henchman to bring her back. Along with the boy. 

The music video is over the top, but so is being captured by men in leotards armed with bubble guns ready to take you back to your dad, Chennai Express style. And so is, running away with the space princess after she incapacitated her father’s men. Even though the concept itself is very simple, it feels like Star Trek meets the planetarium scene in La La Land, whimsical and something you can’t quite take your eyes off because the colours are beaming at you. 

The song itself starts off in a chant that feels all too familiar to me, like old grandmas singing together at a wedding welcoming a bride. The rest of the track likens to the airyness and fullness of sound that we see in songs by the F16s, where a song gets intercepted by sounds you wouldn’t quite expect in between. Somewhere in between, you hear sounds that you’d probably hear at an arcade playing laser tag. It’s random and eclectic but somehow makes the song whole and complete.

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